Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Joan of Arc (1950), with Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Ward Bond...
Ebullient Edwin A. Bergman, 50, president of Chicago's U.S. Reduction Co., values a work of art not for its mystery but for what it tells him of the artist who made it. "You sometimes wonder," he jests, "whether you are buying the art or a piece of the artist." The Bergmans' home is jammed with several generations of Dadaist and surrealist works. Some are by unknown artists, others by famous ones, who are personal friends...
...Bergman caught the collecting bug in 1954, soon met Surrealist Wilfredo Lam and through him acquired an interest in surrealism. He also acquired Roberto Malta's Onyx of Electro, a key exhibit in the survey of Dada and surrealism opening this week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Another favorite is Sculptress Marisol. In fact, the Bergmans were lunching with her on Nov. 22, 1963, when they heard of Kennedy's assassination. They went sadly back to her studio, there saw her 1961 Kennedy Family. It had been returned from a West Coast gallery where a fellow artist had playfully drilled the Jack Kennedy doll in the chest with a pistol. Aghast but fascinated, Bergman bought the work after Marisol had repaired...
...creating art herself. Her constructions are composed in the constructivist vernacular that she favors in her collection, which is rich in Vasarely, Albers, Calder and Gabo. For the past two years, she has held shows at Chicago's Main Street Galleries, has sold work to Collectors Mayer, Bergman and Connecticut's Joseph Hirshhorn...